/lit/ - Literature

>>8053960
One, is being forced to read, that is enough to make some people angry.

Two, making work out of it and getting sidetracked on details. This is especially bad with historical works were one must stop to learn context and terms.

Three, going too deep. Sometimes that phrase the author used does not contain the multiple meanings specifically designed over years to effect your deeper subconscious in a manner that will alter your life's existence, they just thought it sounded right to them.

All of this is why I hated reading "The Things They Carried". My teacher literally stopped our reading every few minutes to explain things and have us search for means so deep they could not possibly exist. If you spend two hours discussing the type font of the word "it" on page 176, and why the author choose to print it that way, despite that font being the same and nearly every other word in the book you need help.

>>8052555
"The Things They Carried"
see above
there are more, but that one was really ruined more then most.

This book shook me when I was in high school. I was curious to see what I'd think of it if I'd read it today almost 8 years later. The impact is significantly less, but still made me think.
>>7044269
This was my favorite book as a kid. I used to have my dad read it to me in funny voices of all the characters.

TRANSCENDENT TASTE

>>7050702
comfy as fuck